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  • March 31, 2009

    Testing Fly Reels With A Four-Wheeler

    By Tim Romano

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  • March 30, 2009

    Pop Quiz... What Would You Do?

    By Kirk Deeter

    Here are two challenging casting situations; see if you can figure out the best fixes for the problems.

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  • March 27, 2009

    Write the Caption, Win A Prize: #2

    By Tim Romano

    We're starting a new contest at Fly Talk... "Write the Caption, Win a Prize."  The rules are simple: Submit your best caption for this photo by way of comment below.  We'll check them out, and reward the best with a little flyfishing swag. The winner of this round will receive a William Joseph, Tech rain jacket. Better than KD's swag, eh?

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  • March 26, 2009

    What Do You Call a Big Fish?

    By Kirk Deeter

    The question can be taken two ways.  On the one hand, I'm wondering how big a fish has to be before you call it big?  For me, the magic number for trout has always been 20-inches. 

    By any definition, this brown trout caught by Anne Hamner on the Rio Irigoyen in Argentina is mucho trucha...  a lot 'o trout.  It weighed 24 pounds.  She released it.

     

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  • March 25, 2009

    Wild Salmon: Doomed to Extinction?

    By Tim Romano

    After firing up the grill and dining on a little salmon with pineapple, mango, and jalapeno relish last night the conversation turned to just that - salmon. My friend asked why farmed raised salmon was bad. I tried to explain, and after doing so poorly we decided to look it up. Like all conversations these days we found ourselves staring at the computer screen, googling as many different phrases as possible to return an acceptable answer. The video below is a bit long, and a little preachy but does a fantastic job of explaining the problem of farmed raised salmon.

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  • March 24, 2009

    I'm Sorry, Is My Nose in the Air?

    By Kirk Deeter

    Because I love flyfishing, more than any other fishing?  Or I wear a Simms hat?

    After all, I also like to fish with baitcasters, and spinning gear.  I like trolling too.  But I find the technical challenges of casting and presenting flies most fun.  And I'll cast a fly at just about anything: smallies, largemouths, pike, carp... but I've never called that brownlining.  Just fishing.  I live in Colorado because I like trout fishing best.

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  • March 23, 2009

    Warm water fishing: Do you Brownline?

    By Tim Romano

    Last thursday the Wall Street Journal ran a piece (view it here) on fishing for carp, catfish, and other warm-water species using a fly. They talk about a term completely new to me called "brownlining" or finding the brown lines on a map like urban creeks, rivers, and ditches.

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  • March 20, 2009

    Caption Contest Winner and Quiz Answer

    By Kirk Deeter

    First, the easy stuff...

    Okay, so many of you crushed the quiz answer.  Way to go.  I'll think up something more tricky next time. 

    When you are fishing a dry fly hatch, and you know what the insects are, and you make a great cast, and your presentation is perfect... and the fish still refuses the fly (especially when you see the trout come and check your fly out but it takes a pass)...

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  • March 19, 2009

    What Does Flyfishing Teach Us?

    By Tim Romano

    After watching this repurposed commercial for the San Antonio Express-News, via Moldychum it got me thinking, what does fly fishing teach me?  

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  • March 18, 2009

    Guide 101... Take the Pop Quiz

    By Kirk Deeter

    Okay, let's see who's on top of their game, and ready for the spring baetis hatches.  Here's a situation that should be part of any introduction to guide training...  No prizes for correct answers, just the satisfaction of knowing your prowess as a trout magnet grows exponentially with every minute you diddle away on Fly Talk.  I'll give the answer, along with the caption contest winner, on Friday.

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